He will find that these ignominious schisms flowed chiefly from the unchristian contentions for dominion and supremacy which reigned among those who set themselves up for the fathers and defenders of the Church" (p.
Their courage had evaporated in luxurious ease, and their discipline was a prey to intestine schisms and to the intrigues carried on with the French Knights of the Order.
Espousing the ultra-democratic side, he yet contrived to emerge unscathed from the schismswhich were fatal to less dextrous trimmers.
Yet, though the schisms of the allies finally yielded a victory to the French in the campaigns of 1799, the position of the Republic was precarious.
Many of the deputies were young, impressionable, and likely to follow any able leader who promised to heal the schisms of the country.
The Christian cause is weakened by its divisions, and by the political and social schisms which are bred by the schisms in religion.
No good will come of schisms between the nations of Christendom.
There is a posthumous work of Commissioner Lin, in twelve quartos, printed at Peking, urgently pressing the necessity for China of building upon such schisms the one sole policy that can save her from ruin.
There be who perpetually complain of Schisms and Sects, and make it such a calamity that any man dissents from their maxims.
And, lastly, how many schisms have arisen in the Church from the attempt of the authorities to decide by law the intricacies of theological controversy!
To that is now succeeding a distinction, which, like that of republican and federal, or whig and tory, being equally intermixed through every State, threatens none of those geographical schisms which go immediately to a separation.
They will now reserve themselves to profit by the schisms among republicans, and to earn favors from minorities, whom they will enable to triumph over their more numerous antagonists.
I sincerely lament it, because I sincerely esteem them all, and because it multiplies schisms where harmony is safety.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you.
Even before the decease of the last Buddha, schisms had arisen amongst his followers in India.
No external clerical forms and mediaeval reflexes of bygone social and intellectual conditions can save us, nor can sectarian schisms and isolation from national life.
I have already stated to you in a former letter that jealousies and schisms existed among them.
There they learned, that nothing was acknowledged for genuine unsophisticated Masonry but the three degrees; and that the mother Lodge of London alone could, by her instructions, prevent the most dangerous schisms and innovations.
There I saw quotations without number, systems and schisms of which I had never heard; but what particularly struck me was a zeal and a fanaticism about what I thought trifles, which astonished me.
Religious Occurrences: in which there was an account of the various schisms in the Fraternity of Free Masons, with frequent allusions to the origin and history of that celebrated association.
These schisms were continued with some heat, but were in a great measure repaired in Lodges which took the name of Amis reunis de la Verité.
I have already taken notice of the general perversion of the public mind which co-operated with the schisms of Free Masonry in procuring a listening ear to Spartacus and his associates.
Speak the same things and let there be noschisms among you" (I Cor.
The most threatening of all the schisms of this period was the Donatist in North Africa.
Passionate contentions, quarrels and schismsamong bishops and clergy filled also public life with party strife, animosity and bitterness.
The Novatian and the Alexandrian Meletian Schisms (§ 41, 3, 4) continued to rage down into our period.
Then in consequence of the Arian controversy there arose among the orthodox three new schisms (§ 50, 8).
These, with other verses written in tears, relate to schisms of pope and antipope which so often rent the papacy in Peter's lifetime.
Besides the theoretical, there was a practical occasion in those schisms which, not merely in later or in mediaeval times, but in the first ages also, rent the Christian society.
Ask the Greek, if bishops and patriarch disagree, and come to opposite judgments on the faith, or to schisms in communion, which party make the Church?
The various heresies and schisms of the time were condemned.
Likewise the various factions in the many Eastern schisms strove for favourable decisions from the Roman Bishop.
You may be assured that the factions of the Pope and other sects are not, as they boast, the Church of Christ, but accursed schisms of the devil.
Conscious of their privileged enjoyment of Christ, of baptism and the Sacrament, they thought they lacked nothing and fell to creating sects and schisms among themselves.
Where this commandment is dishonored, schisms and factions will necessarily arise to corrupt pure doctrine and faith, and the devil will sow his seed, which afterwards can be eradicated only with difficulty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
